Some little AHA! moments...
Stumble, discover, seek , find. Amble, trip, meander, follow a thread, a link.
And so...many minutes later, I find myself still gazing at a computer screen, sucked into a time warp...Sometimes these instances garner nothing but me wondering where the day went. But sometimes I do indeed have little breakthrough moments, little fizzy feelings in my tummy when I discover a site or scene, image or words that resonate and I know this will lead onto good things.
Little "AHA!" moments
And so it was when I found my BLOG with PIP
classmate Leaf and Petal and her awesome writing and creations.....and then through her, another blog by a rather clever lass, The The Bowerbird Girl. Like me, she digs photography.Unlike me, she seems to have begun to master it...whereas I split myself into a million pieces.Jack of many trades and master of none I believe is the usual, standard cliche!
classmate Leaf and Petal and her awesome writing and creations.....and then through her, another blog by a rather clever lass, The The Bowerbird Girl. Like me, she digs photography.Unlike me, she seems to have begun to master it...whereas I split myself into a million pieces.Jack of many trades and master of none I believe is the usual, standard cliche!
Leaf and Petal wrote a terrific blog about her GENESIS moment, as part of a LINKY party (oh aren't I SO discourse technology savvy and cool...lol), and so ambling along I followed her to the origins of this idea, and that was The Bowerbird Girl blog.
So what is the the Genesis moment?You know, when you go...
AHA! I THINK I MIGHT BE ONTO SOMETHING HERE!
It is a fabulous feeling. A buzz. A fizzy buzz. A fizzy fuzzy buzzy thang. A bump in the solar plexus, a nudge towards your path.To be listened to, and not ignored.
Truth is, in the last few years, on this journey to reclaim a creative path...to get back to my passions and desires...there have been many many genesis moments. They actually stretch back all the way to my childhood.I see those moments all lined up, a little like dominoes, and intrinsically know the connection between them . But I also know the things that intervened and stopped the dominoes from gaining momentum.
Maybe one day I will write the story of how rare pear studio started, and got some of that momentum back. But I will do it further along into the story, when the story has a bit more juice.Maybe.
But for now... I share these little AHA moments...and why they are what they are.
CLOUD ON A PLATE
TIMBER
So one month of #7 Vignetting (yes, what is it..to the uninitiated it is a challenge on Instagram that goes for one week, the first 7 days each month, with a word prompt to inspire you), there was the word TIMBER. I had worked all day, came home in the dark, exhausted but panicking because I had not posted my shot for the day.I set this up with props grabbed from anything I could find made of wood. There were about 6 lamps and some candles burning just to give me enough light. I had not yet discovered the amazing joy of the SNAPSEED app on my phone (oh how I wish I had known...!). It is a cleanskin shot...not even any cropping...I was SO green about how to edit photos on my new phone. I was about to call it quits, give up totally...when I looked and saw this image, and thought GOT IT!I could not wait to post it. It got a good reaction..one of the best I had had at that time. And it hooked me in...line and sinker ..into #7vignettes and Instagram.
BOOKFOLDING...
Strange but true, book folding is what got my creative juices and mojo back again. I thought I had come up with the idea myself, after playing with vintage books I kept picking up at op-shops. Then after doing a few books...and feeling like "WOW I AM AMAZEBALLS!" Then, I Googled it..at a friend's suggestion. And was so gutted (boohoo), I realised I was not that original. This was before I knew about Pinterest. Or Instagram. But I picked myself off the floor,threw away the used Kleenex and kept folding...and began wondering if people would buy these from me? After all, how many folded books did my house need to decorate it?And a little bit of the idea of rare pear studio began to form...
STRINGRAM HEART
Making...from whippy wisteria prunings and builder's string...I started winding and winding...for a thing called the string challenge, organised by Tina Fox of PAPER BAG KITS, through the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. I had no idea what I was making or doing...but just went with it. And once again...had one of those..."I am out of my comfort zone but really enjoying this" moments. From the comments of others, I began to realise that what seemed perfectly natural and normal thing to do...to make something from bits of old twang, was actually a bit unusual and quirky to them.And made me remember that being creative was intrinsic and I could not describe it....except to know that it is part of who I am, and needs an outlet.Whatever it is, even old twang and string!
So there you go...a couple or so of little light bulb moments.Not enough to change the world itself, but enough to change my little one.
